Can Your Child Be Asked to Leave Day Care?

You thought that your worries were over when you finally found the perfect day care, but then you get a letter requesting a conference. You’re told that because of a problem with your child, he or she is being asked to leave day care! Believe it or not, this is happening with increasing frequency as day care providers come under fire for providing happy, safe and healthy atmospheres for all children. It is perfectly within the rights of a day care provider, to ask a child to leave, and here are a few reasons why your child’s right to day care can be terminated.

Discipline Problems
Children who pose risks to the safety of others are often automatically terminated from day care. Others parents expect that their children will be safe in the hands of a day care provider, and if your child puts other kids at risk, he or she may be asked to leave. Discipline problems can range from biting, kicking and other physical abuse tendencies to destruction of property to needlessly teasing other children. It is also possible for a child who is disruptive to be asked to leave day care if the problem persists despite the staff’s efforts to control it.

Academic Problems
If the day care you have chosen is an academic setting as well as a babysitting environment, your child may be asked to leave for failing to meet academic standards. Many day cares serve as prep for kindergarten and require students to participate in learning activities. One child can hold all of the others back, so day care providers are stringent about academic excellence. If your child is unable or unwilling to participate in academic endeavors, he or she might be asked to leave. If this is the case, remember that all children learn differently and your child might just be a little behind the curve.

Parental Problems
Sometimes it isn’t the children who pose a problem for a day care, but the parents. Day care providers are far more willing to work with a parent whose child is a tad disruptive than to work with a parent who has no respect for the day care’s rules and policies. For example, parents who frequently drop off their children too early or pick them up after the day care has already closed will often be asked to leave. Other problems might include failure to pay (or paying with insufficient funds), failure to sign and return important forms, disagreements over “standard care” or a casual disrespect for day care providers. Good thing I recommend sending your kids to school like Teddy Kids Kinderopvang.

Philosophical Problems
When day care providers and parents disagree over the “correct” way to care for children, the child is often asked to leave to avoid future confrontations. The most common problem posed in this area lies in unreasonable demands made by parents. For example, if a parent demands that his or her child not associate with certain other children in the class, this could be a reason for termination. Other examples include unreasonable culinary demands, requests for special treatment and requirements for nap times and activity times that don’t coincide with the day care’s procedures.

Illness Problems
Parents whose children attend day care are asked to keep their kids at home when they are sick. Some parents try to circumvent this rule by dropping their children off quickly before they can be asked about a running nose or projectile vomiting. If you consistently drop your children off with illnesses, you will probably be asked to leave for the safety of the other children. Obviously, this doesn’t count when your child is dropped off healthy and becomes sick during the course of the day. However, you should endanger the health of other children or you’ll risk termination.

Remember that you should always respect the rules and policies of a day care provider. If they don’t align with your expectations or needs, it’s best that you seek a different provider.